Friday, January 31, 2025

Ocean Surface Is Warming over 400 Percent Faster Than in the 1980s

The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods, leaving researchers scrambling for explanations.

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Sea surface temperatures were the highest on record (again) for the month of December across the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean. Data available from NOAA ERSSTv5: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext ...

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-- Zack Labe (@zacklabe.com) January 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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... Data from the world's oceans now reveal that an alarming acceleration in sea surface warming likely contributed. A new study from the University of Reading in the UK finds the tops of our oceans are warming more than four times faster than in the late 1980s. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-30 12:54 AM

When you've got atmospheric heaters and the abilities to reflect that energy back down, weather wars are a fact.

#2 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-30 05:28 AM

We have nothing to do with this. It is a matter for the market to resolve. Now, send more sandbags to the Southern Palace at Mar-A-Lago. Our liege demands it. So it is written, so it shall be...
--The Court of the Dotard King

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-31 01:55 PM

Republican solution? Defund NOAA. No more climate change!

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-31 02:08 PM

Blaming "atmospheric heaters" and "weather wars" is about as dumb as believing it's the imaginary sky fairy punishing us for DEI and gender identity.

#5 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-01-31 02:26 PM

It was minus double digit at many homes around USA recently. Climate and weather has always been in a state of change, sometimes long term, other times short term and beyond that geological time. We've had multiple Ice Ages that are created by geological and astronomical events beyond our control and conception. Too many think they have brilliance when they have none.

#6 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-31 02:26 PM

Too many think they have brilliance when they have none.

#6 | Posted by Robson

You have an unmatched sense of irony.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-31 02:46 PM

Too many think they have brilliance when they have none.

#6 | Posted by Robson

Too many think they know more than climate scientists when they never went to college. That's called the joe rogan effect.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-31 02:50 PM

@#7 ... You have an unmatched sense of irony. ...

So, I'm not the only one who noticed that?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-31 09:58 PM

@#4 ... Republican solution? Defund NOAA. No more climate change! ...

Defund? Maybe not as the first volley.

The first volley might be similar to what happened to the CDC.

The organization can no longer issue reports. ( drudge.com )



#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-31 10:00 PM

OK, I have to ask ... what, exactly is MAGA's problem with science?


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-31 10:01 PM

Apparently all sorts of government websites are going dark. A lot of them are science databases

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-31 10:06 PM

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